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New bird discovered after its extinction
Mar 26, 2009 |
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After almost 120 years in the Natural History Museum collections, a new Colombian bird has been discovered, and proclaimed extinct.
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New study shows bird population estimates are flawed
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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Most of what we know about bird populations stems from surveys conducted by professional biologists and amateur birdwatchers, but new research from North Carolina State University shows that the data from those surveys may ...
The way of the digital dodo
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The laser light glowed brilliant red, forming a moving line as it bounced information from the dodo’s bones back into the high-tech scanner sitting on a tripod on the Museum of Comparative ...
Berlin's big dino skeleton back on display
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Jul 15, 2007 |
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The world's largest dinosaur skeleton went on display this week at Berlin's renovated natural history museum.
Museum experts ID birds that bring down planes
Jun 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When animals are the prime suspects in a whodunit, who gets on the case? In capers where feathers or fur are the smoking guns, the role of CSI is often played by top natural history museums.
Darwin egg from Beagle voyage found by museum volunteer
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University's Zoology Museum.
Scientists Discover New Bird Species
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Aug 15, 2008 |
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Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered a new species of bird in Gabon, Africa, that was, until now, unknown to the scientific community. Their findings were published in the international ...
It's for the birds: Historical bird files give insight into climate change
Mar 18, 2009 |
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On Nov. 1, 1933, Mrs. Bruce Reid recorded seeing both a male and female ivory-billed woodpecker in Texas. And on May 28, 1938, Oscar McKinley Bryans observed a ruby-throated hummingbird in Michigan, noting that the birds ...
Stuffing the turkey and other Thanksgiving food-safety mistakes
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What would a Thanksgiving turkey be without its stuffing, and what better place for that stuffing than inside the turkey? Despite the tradition involved, a food-safety specialist in Penn State's College of ...
Inside the First Bird, Surprising Signs of a Dinosaur
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less “bird-like” than scientists had believed.
'Early bird' project really gets the worm
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Jun 26, 2008 |
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Scientists from the LSU Museum of Natural Science, or MNS, recently participated in a project joining together the most prominent ornithological research programs in the world. This study – the largest study of bird genetics ...
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